Using Black Sand

sphelps · #1 05-19-2011, 05:19 PM

I used black sand before in fish only and everything did fine including a dragon goby that sifted. However it looked great at first but after a few months looked pretty crappy. I won't use it again.

Leah · #2 05-19-2011, 05:24 PM

I used it for my Seahorse tank and it was fine for awhile....but I had other tanks with white sand and it eventually got mixed with the black and I ended up pulling it out because of it.

Diana · #3 05-20-2011, 02:39 AM

I would love to experiment with a Big Island of Hawaii theme with black sand, black lava rock, blue background and a school of yellow tangs.

freezetyle · #4 05-20-2011, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by sphelps

I used black sand before in fish only and everything did fine including a dragon goby that sifted. However it looked great at first but after a few months looked pretty crappy. I won't use it again.

i heard it got dirty really quick. you almost have to clean it as much as a bare bottom tank. Although, It does look really awesome. Check out "Youngster Dan" tank journal of his inverted 90 that he unfortunately had to pull down. It looked fantastic